Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (0. . Weather Bureau Forecast). Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,892. FOUR 15T PRECINGT POLICE SUSPENDED FOLLOWING PROBE OF BEATING CHARGE Pratt Acts After Stoll Re- ports on Accusation of Harker, Held as Burglary | Suspect. TWO OTHER COMPLAINTS | OF WHIPPING ARE MADE Reichelderfer Demands Full In- quiry—Declares Charges, if True, | Show Officers Are Using Mus- cles Instead of Brains."—Pris- oner Claims Hair Pulled Out. Four first precinct police officers were suspended today by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of | police, following receipt of a re-| port from Inspector L. J. Stoll, who investigated charges that they participated in the beating of James Harker, 24-year-old burglary suspect. ‘The suspended officers, identi- fied by Harker yesterday, were Detective James Mostyn, W. C. Inspector Stoll in his report de- clared “there is no doubt but that Harker was beaten either just be- fore his arrest or while in cus- tody.” He recommended that the officers be suspended. " The report was delivered short- | ly after a conference between Cormissioner Luther H. Reichel- derfer, Maj. Pratt and Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride, in which Commissioner Reichelderfer minced no words in informing Entered as second class matte “post office, Washington, D. ¢ DUCK SEASON GUT ! WASHINGTON, Statements of Prisoners Robert E. Martz and Frederick C. Sampson Say They Were Beaten Into Confessions by Detectives at First Precinct Station. The statemeénts of two prisoners in the District Jail, charging that they were beaten into confessions at the first precinct station, made and signed in the presence of a Star reporter and an oficial of the jail, ap- pear delow. In printing the statements The Star realizes that the prisoners have nothing to lose by making them, and consequently the names of the ac- cused detectives have been eliminated until further investipation. Statement of Robert E. Martz. When I was arrested in the fatal shooting of Irvin Zirkle, Detectives —— and —— beat me in an effort to make me say g « the shooting was not accidental. I insisted I shot Zirkle accidentally, but they beat me intermittently through- out the night, —— holding me by my hair with one hand and hitting me with the other. He pulled out a hand- ful of hair. (Signed) ROBERT E. MARTZ. Statement of Frederick C. Sampson. During the three days — —, — —— and I were held at the first pre- cinct police station we were beaten several times each day by Detectives —— and —— and a uniformed officer whose name I do not know. Detectives —, —— and the other man beat me with their fists and the two detectives threatened me with clubs—one with a broom handle and the other with a sawed-off pool cue. I know they used the clubs on —— and —— be- x cause they both told me so. Besides, I could hear their yells from the cell room where I was locked up. When we were first taken to the sta- tion we were questioned by the police- men who arrested us. They accused us of having attempted to break into a jewelry store near Fifteenth and F streets. When we denied the charge, one of the officers said: “Wait till — gets here—he’ll make you talk.” —— and —— beat me at the same time, one punching one side of my face and the other pummeling the oth- er side. 1 know —— and —— were beaten, too, because they not only told me so, DIR— but I saw the marks of the beatings. —— had a black eye and his face was bruised, while — was in similar condition. (Signed) FREDERICK C. SAMPSON. FVE HORE MAMED 1S FFORD ADES |Owen D. Young Is Amang Group Added to Advisory Board. 0. KD BY HOOVER Birds May Be Taken in Vir- ginia and Maryland From Nov. 16 to Dec. 15. AR | Reduction of the duck-hunting sea- | son to ome month this Fall was ap- President Hoover today named five ¥ I | proved today by President Hoover on ireemunmd-uon of Secretary of Agri- xer | Culture Arthur M. Hyde. l‘tohr:t t‘\.lu"-r- For Maryland and Virginia, under He claims | the order, which becomes effective im- 1 88 & ¢ y. induce him to | he still admits | having had his money, giving it away and spending it like his proverbial | cdrunken saflor. He also admits telling | of .m. Saturday. pi August | mediately, the duck-hunting season this year will open November 16 and clue‘ December 15, inclusive. | No limits on.the bags previously pre- | sc: gated last year under the United States-| | Committee, assisting Walter 8. Gif- { ford in unemployment relief, including | Owen D. Young of New York. Th | cthers were: Conrad Mann, Kansa | City; P. G. Spillsbury, Phoenix, Ariz.; 8. P. Bush, Columbus, and James F. Bell, Minneapolis, Gifford, national relief director, an- ncunced yesterday the committee would ribed under the regulations promul- | be augmented to include representatives | today. of every State. e ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, TUESDAY, CANNGN ATTACKS ELASS AS FUNDS QUEISRELPENED gBishop Says Inquiry Is Per-| sonal and Under Roman Catholic Domination. SLEMP CALLED TODAY BY NYE'S COMMITTEE Group to Investigate Money Given by E. C. Jameson in Anti- Smith Fight. By the Assoclated Press. » Bishop James Cannon, jr., charged in | a cable today from London that the ! Senate’s inquiry into his 1928 anti- Smith campaign activities was a “purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat and a Boston Congressman under Reman Catholic dor.ination” and not an attempt to frame remedial legis- lation. The message was sent t the Senate Campaign Punds Committee, as it pre- pired to resume its inquiry into the | Southern Methodist churchman's use of ‘ $65,300 in Virginia in 1928 against Al- fred E. Smith. The inquiry was sched- uled to start at 2:30 p.m. Refers to Glass and Tinkham. Bishop Canncn's charges referred to Senator Glass, Democrat, h protested mitiee’s right to continue the investiga- . He called attention that th> pro- bibitory writ against the inguiry, asked | refused recently by a local court,, , and asserted the | committee knew church duties required ; his presence in London at this time. He sald the contention that the in- | quiry should be finisned now, before | the statute of = it with the facts.” | He added it contradicted the commit- | tee attorney’s plea before the court that remedial legislation was the purpose of | parent that “criminal prosecution fore the statute of limitations prevents” was behind it. Denies U. 8. Jurisdiction. churchman said the $65,300 | | in December and | ve ample time for v said, “the Jame- Jur] October, January and this P rtbertore,” son contributions were ali ussd to lectors, and, e, the juris- of they wer Smith presidential ek therefore, e not under diction Hl- he had ob] to an said he never jected “Pederal grand jury constituted cannot agree , operating under no restric- jon concerning plaints of criminal conduct.” Slemp to Take Stand. l C. Bascom Slemp, Republican na-| new members to the National Advisory ) tional committeeman for Virginia and |, | former secretary to President Coolidge, | was called for today’s special session. | The meeting 4 so Mr. lemp might leave the country. to re-| ‘sume his dutles as American commis- joner at the Paris Colonial Expositivn. AUGUST 25, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. only evening paper in Washington with the Auo'cind Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 107,245. (#) Means Associated Press. N ) J'Jl”‘"" - , D pe HORRORS OF RAGING FOREST FLAMES TOLD BY SURVIVORS :\Animals Burn, Fleeing Fires—Familics Stand in Waters to Avoid Killing By the Associated Press. 1 SPOKANE, Wash. August 25.—The | larger fires in th: trickling into Spokane today. | Blazing #nimals running until they dropped dead., farm families standing neck deep in cold mcuntain streams to | lesclpc the flames and hundreds of per- sons in want, their homes razed, were | described by Mrs. F. Chant, who lives | at Coolin, Idaho, on the edge of the | “The heat was so great” she said. Heat. “that it stirred up tornadces that toic up big trees by the roots. One rancher, Cal Huff, w2s on the roof of his barn Huff. she ccntinucd, was thrown off the swirling structure and landed in a tree uninjured. All his ranch buildings burned. Settlers hemmed in by the blaze, which foresters said traveled 25 miles in two hours, fled to strzams for safety. Some of them stood for hours, all but submerged. Many became il with | pneumonia and rheumatism after they | were rescued. “It was terrible to see horses, calves, (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) ture Ignores Pleas on Up- = RODSEVELT SNUBS | NDBERGHS GIVEN - TAMMANY AGAIN DIACRAM OF ROUTE the rignt to conduct an in- | Message to Special Legisla- Flight to Kasumigaura Will 345900 nze. Be Entirely Over Water to Evade Forts. state Investigation. By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., August 25—Gov. TOKIO, August 25.—In view of Roosevelt’'s message to the extraordi- | the fact there is more than one fortified {8 { | Chairman Nye was confl:ent “as he|nary session of the Legislature today, arda near the route waich Col. and : prepared to examine more than a score ' made public shortly in advance of the | Mrs. Chai - {of witnesses called for this week m“zupemnwu of the ncisxon was co:nned :ll': 1 s !hx.'am s the end of the inquiry into Bishop | g . |fiving from Nemuro to migaura. Cannon was in sight. llo urging broadening of immunity pow- | near here, they will be supplied with a Mr. Slemp Is the only witness for/ers to the Legislative Committee in- | diagram showing a specified course. to It is understood he will be/yestigatmg New York City affairs. | be followed. ‘The Democratic Governor’s failure to | Zi.dfllll he had en :‘wdéhho{lhce and stolen the money, & not say ) Canada migratory game bird treaty were anything at that time or at any other | - A time about ha been beaten up to any member of department. Face Swollen and Red. “Numerous officers have stated that | duck shooting. Drought in Breeding Areas. The mflm in the mmmmg year Harker's face was swollen and red when Was cm , a to ! jureau he was sent into the station. If he did | of Blological Survey of the Department Tecelve same from other sources than |Of ] by the drought in the V] Jaims, the officers this case | N¢ of the United States g mentaly more and have |and in the large areas of Canada, which (Continued on Page 2. Column 2.) MRS. COOPER OUT Widow of Representative Fails in | Try for His Seat. LAKE GENEVA, Wis., August 25 () —Mrs, Henry Allen Cooper, widow of the Representative, was eliminated as a candidate for her husband's ceat Jast night by & caucus of that faction of the Republican party known as the Progressives. Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, ar atiorney, was named on the first formal balit. The vacancy created by Representative Cooper's death may be filled at a special election, provided one is called by Gov. La Pol- lette. The Govermor, however, has not indicated whether a special clection will be held | breeding grounds of the vast flocks of wild ducks, , brant and coot which have annually migrated to the waters of Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, the Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) GETS DECREE, REMARRIES Richard Burton, Poet, Weds 10 Minutes After Divorce Is Granted. RENO, Nev.. August 25 (#) —Richard Burton, poet and lecturer, married Mrs. Ruth Guthrie Harding of Paterspn, N. J., 10 minutes after he was divorced |from Agnes Rose Burton here yester- day. | Judge Thomas Moran presided at both events. Burton formerly was head of the English Department of the Uni- versity of Minnesota. STEALS PLANE TO HIDE SONS FROM WIFE AND COURT ORDER Californian on Third Time at Controls Leaves Pilot and ’ Escapes to Mountains. ingsly had handled the. controls of & Py the Associated Press. plane only twice before, and never had flown alone. LONE PINE, Calif, August 25.—A | father, who stol* an alrpiane and used his limited knowledge ¢f piloting to fly away with his two small children, whom he had f Tom Hi that Bill! was met- by an accom- plice and that they took the children to & deserted cabin in the Inyo Fo:thills. abductor’ | have trom time immemorial been the f ‘s actions and his notes | Gifford was going forward today with |added to this year's restrictions on|plans for a national cAmpaign m--m!.,‘..,“ Ay | in ecollection of funds ‘for local relief. Meets Charity Heads. Representatives of Nation-wide wel- fate and charity organizations today were conferring with Mr. Gifford to | formulate plans to aid local communi- ties in unemployment relief | Mr. Gifford said he ‘was in hopes of getting the campaign under way as soon as possible in order that the money ‘;Ill‘b:’ gchlnd when Winter arrives. | He amount to be | been determined. e | conterence at :iho Com . mmto ol H he Commerce t- | ment Building this morning were Allen T. Burns, director of the Community | Chest Association; W. J. Eilis, tion of Public Welfare Officials; Miss Bertha McCall, National Travelers’ Ald Assoclation; Miss Joanna Colcord, Re: search Division of the Russell Sage ndation, and Rev. John O'Grady of | the National Catholic Welfsre Confer- nce. National Appeal Period. { 4o The relief director said he intended | to propose to members of this group imln::emll period for their ap) for “Such a period” he explained, “can | then be recommended to all erganiza (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) 'HEIRESS ELOPES TO WED | CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART Miss Mary Sue McCullough Mar-| ries Whipple Van Ness Jones i at Waukegan, Il | By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Al childhood The roma; of Sue McCullough, 18, heiress loug] $51,000,000-estate of 5 i aamt, Jones, 21 H'.“r‘imt.m hy » rVal In-nalma:m‘le.'ummwy. Wis, Summer : Waukegan, Tl ‘While their engagement had not been al heir parents had expected “when they were old @ | who was affiliated with Bishop Cannon | — | Denies Bringing Charges in Nye c.--‘ ‘mittee Probe. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 25 w).—! United States Senator Carter Glass said | today that if Bishop James Cannon, Yeferred to him as the “vindictive Vir-| ginia Democrat” mentioned in a cable- gram to Senator Nye, chairman of the | Senate Campaign Funds Committee, “it | should be clearly understood that I| have brought no charges before the i Nye Committee against Bishop Can- | non.” | " charge of embezziement.” Sen- |ator Glass said, “was projected by a | Massachusetts Republican an in the last presidential election and, along with Bishop Cannon, opposed the | election of the Democratic candidate. I simply offered a resolution, which the Senate unanimously passed, giving from the shocking charge m: former political associate of having em- bezzled campaign funds and devoted hem to his own private Bishop Cannon has “onl uses. 1y \himself to quit annot be done by infuriated tal “vindictive Virginia “If he did not grossly violate the | act nor appro- politics of their accuser. demand immediate | uestioned as to what he knew, if any-| ghln', of the relations existing between | The course as laid out by the Com- Cannon and Mr, Jameson, who | been called by the committe=. ! Tomorrow a half dozen bankers will | | be questioned in an examination of !hei | bishop’s various bank accounts. Among | i other witnesses summoned is Miss Ada | L. Burroughs of Richmond, who was/ {treasurer of the bishop’s Arm-l Smith Committee. She refused to answer questions when examined pre- viously. GLASS ANSWERS CANNON. word his message 50 as to give his party members an opportunity to de- bate the subject of an Inquiry in up- Expect to Hop Tomorrow. State Republican cities represented the | weather permitting, the Lindberghs fourth time he had declined to sc- are expected to_leave "r‘:l;:mr& at 1 - |0 mo m. ; _ _ | ing southwestward to Cape Erimo, Hok- “It is important that (New York|kaido, and thence southward, keeping City) investigation be not delayed and " to the east of Aomori Prefecture, which contains a fortified zone. needless expense incurred and that this | CRisins & orted ik matter be decided, therefore, by YOUT|scene of take-offs by Harold L. Brom- honorable bodies at the earliest possible [ ley and Harold Gatty and by Thomas moment,” the Governor wrote. Ash, jr, on attempted transpacific fiights. Necessary Legislation Seen. At Kasumigaura ‘the Lindberghs will “It must not be confused or en-|be greeted by the minister of the navy tangled with other legislation. It is a|and about 150 invited guests, including question that must be decided on its own merits without delay.” ;:lnd representatives of various associa- 1t was a foregone conclusion the Re- | tions. publicats legialitive TARDELLS . owould |, The ML 106 Heuro i sEpectd to push through the bilis w hich the New York City Investigating Committee e e Mo v I ite ‘inguiry ‘it the’ diys |, Ol abd Mrs. Linhergh resting hete omN-h R Y in preparation for the conclusion to- Tammany sdministration. | morrow of t'helrflg’t‘zm ‘l:‘mlo. rouneg ith the factional-battle over im- |time today for sightseeing, and gain: mxuy out of the way, party lines |friendship of the native inhabitants by were expected to be almost forgotten | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) in the combined detgm:‘x’l:u?:“:n -l:d- PR O R i e eerecied o b idle n e stne | JDLE DEMONSTRATION | TIP BRINGS TROOPERS Albany H;n: for Possible thi. Winter. Trcuble With “Unemployed Tax in Luxuries Weighed. While neither Gov. Roosevelt nor the | Council” at Capitol. munications Department calls for an | over-water fiight all the way. legislative leaders had given a hint | #s to how they planned to raise the | $30,000,000 considered necessary, & tax | on luxuries was considered the proba- | ble method. { Among the things expected to be | taxed if this methoc is adopted arc tpbacco and cosmetics. Another pro- pmax l‘I uht mtl:“t;x ehve'ry aul t“‘ | By the Associated Press. 8 such an automobile tax ¥, N. ¥, August 25.—Heav alone would yield $10,000,000. Poacces oo B et Wiy “{ BULLARD’S SON KILLED Member of Well Known U. 8. Na- val Family Dies of Wounds. | ‘Councll of Unemployed” inténded to [stage & demonstration st the apsuing Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, Calif. received by HACDOMLD P CBIET O JONEN, WAMIG 4 TORIES HEY, RAMSAY, ( YouRe Sreativg jBaIdwin Chosen President of | | Council, Snowden Retain- ing Exchequer Post. {LIBERALS RECEIVE TWO | | PLACES, LABORITES FOUR | i s | Organized Labor Turns Guns om New Regime, Urging Party to Map Drive at Once. By the Associated Preas. | LONDON, August 25.—Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald as head of the | new national. non-partisan government | today announced the personmel of his cabinet, iricluding Staniey Baldwin, Con- | servative leader, as president of the | council, and Philip Snowden in his old | post as chancellor of the exchequer. l The complete cabinet line-up is as tollows: Mr. MacDonald, lm e prime .-hhur and — | Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) presi- | dent of the council. | | Philip Snowden (Labor) chaneellor | of the_ exchequer. e LEA IS CONVICTED e o e | | Lord Sankey (Labor chancellor. N BANK FALURE e = retary. = 8ir Samuel “‘zme (Conservative) Former U. S. Senator, His;m Son and Banker Face Pos- secretary. 4 (Labor), secretary for sible Prison Terms. for J. H. Thomas dominions and colonies. inister of health, ¢ i area quelled, graphic | fghting off fiying cinders when such a By the Associated Press. limitations expires, was 5tories of the horror that fcliowed the | gust carried the roof to a neighbor's | Priest River, IGaho, conflagration were | barn, setting it afire.” Luke Lea, Nashville, Tenn.. newspaper | publisher and former United States ., Si Austin Chamby Senator, was found guilty in Superior i X 7 Court here today of conspiring to de- tive). fraud the Asheville Central Bank and | The s | Trust Co. of $1,136,000. | His son Luke, jr. and Wallace Davis. who was president of which fafled last Fall, were found | with him. E. P. Charlet of | a business associate of Lea, was | not guilty cn all counts. | The Leas and Davis were | of conspiracy under two counts | the two Leas under an additional cpiracy count. They also were victed of actual misapplication of funds. | British cabinet. Face Possible Prison Terms. Maximum sentences under the jury’s verdict would be: Luke Lea, sr., and Luke Lea, jr., 60 years in prison and | | room, ¢ Lea, Jr., sat | in_his chair, his chin in Mrs. Lea and her husband straight at the jury. Col. Lea’s expres- | sion did not change, but the color in| his wife’s face heightened as her hand | tightened over his and her nails dug into the flesh. Col. Lea leansd over and patted his daughter, but the child apparently did | iste: not realize the gravity of the situation |and continued beating a tattoo on a | court room table. At least three members of the jury had tears trickling down their cheeks. | Quarrels With Officer. The elder Lea and John Thrash, a | depas deputy sheriff and one of the court officers, exchanged hot words as the defendants awaited the verdict. Thrash had just com: from an er- and which took him to the jury room and Lea, speaking (o friends, :aid: “See that that fellow doesn't get back | into_the jury room.” 9 | "Il thank you not to make remarks like that,” Thrash said, and ed efeen Mo spd 10d Thrath awry | e s v Donald took the roster to - Defense attorneys announced they ingham Palace, where it was -p:o‘f:l were preparing motions_for & new trial ' by the King. and if it was refused they would ap- ~“The barometer is setting fair” he peal. Judge Barnhill made no an- | said when he returned to his offics nouncement respecting the sentences. | in Downing street; “we have very near- | Details of Charges. ly finished the prelimin: | members of | The detatled charges in the State in- | pe pre b | dictment werc that Lea borrowed, with the connivance of Davis, $825,000 from | the bank on improper and worthless | collateral; that he kept'$214,000 worth | of the bank’s Eonids without making | | settlement; that he deprived the bank of the proceeds of $45,000 out of a City of Asheviile $305,000 note issue and that | he fraudulently obtained $300,000 worth | of the bank’s certificates of deposit. | The State also alleged Lea reduced | the bank's credit by ‘“kiting” huge | checks. » | The defense contended all the trans- |'actions were in violation neither of law | | nor of business ethics. The trial con- | sumed four weeks. over by thé retiring ministers. King te Resume Vacation. Already the King is planning to leave tomorrow night to resume his inter- | rupted vacation gt Balmoral Castle in | Scotland. | Organized labor stiffened its 5 tion to the mon-partisan na gov- "mmmi dent bor party, fl n?’“ it Lal 3 Left wing the labor movement, offi- its relentless cially declaring to_the new government’ |~ Continud on Page 3. Colmm 43 _ 'RICHEY BRINGS FISHING PROWESS { PROOFS IN PASSPORT FOR CATCH